Injection Engineering Manager

About Charm

Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We convert excess inedible biomass into carbon‑rich bio‑oil and inject it into underground storage for permanent carbon removal. At scale, we can use bio‑oil to make fossil‑free iron.

Our carbon removal efforts began in 2020 with initial purchases from customers like Stripe, Shopify, and Microsoft. Since then, we have scaled to thousands of tons of carbon removal, grown to over a hundred employees, and established three locations in San Francisco, Colorado, and Louisiana.

We're expanding our team of ambitious, creative, and hands‑on problem solvers. We value psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning. We take calculated risks and treat mistakes as opportunities to improve. If you're excited about tackling big challenges, we encourage you to explore our company values.

Come help us reverse climate change. Gigatons or bust!

Charm's Louisiana site is the world's first operational bio‑oil injection well and the platform from which we will scale carbon removal to future sites. The facility has evolved into a technically sophisticated operation involving multi‑feed bio‑oil blending, active filtration development, automated PLC state‑machine logic, real‑time process monitoring, and a growing sample and laboratory program.

As we scale toward continuous 24/7 operations, we are hiring an Injections Engineering Manager to serve as the senior on‑site engineering leader responsible for technical decision making, operational reliability, and crew leadership. This role is designed for an engineering leader with an operations mindset who thrives in complex fluid systems, can lead structured troubleshooting under uncertainty, and wants deep ownership of a first‑of‑its‑kind industrial process.

The Injections Engineering Manager is the senior technical and administrative owner of the Basco facility. This person leads day‑of‑shift engineering decisions around production, balancing filtration strategy, viscosity and heating management, recirculation vs. injection, process escalation, and stop‑work authority. They own the abnormal‑situation response playbook (hypothesize, test, decide, document) and serve as the on‑site counterpart to Charm’s Colorado‑based controls, automation, and process engineering teams.

In parallel, the role partners strategically with the site’s Operations Supervisor & Process Specialist to drive the site’s operational cadence, scheduling, timecard and payroll oversight, training systems, SOP management, hiring, and workforce development. The Injection Engineering Manager sets the strategy, while the Operations Supervisor leads tactical day‑to‑day field execution across shifts.

This role reports to the Chief Operations Officer and is ideal for someone who wants to take deep ownership of a pioneering industrial operation for one to two years before transitioning into a broader leadership role at Charm's Colorado headquarters or helping launch future injection sites.

This position may be based full‑time on‑site in St. Landry, Louisiana, with relocation assistance provided. Alternatively, the role may be performed in a hybrid or remote capacity from within the United States, with no relocation required. Candidates who do not relocate to Louisiana must be able to travel to the St. Landry site approximately 50 to 75% of the time.

• Lead structured troubleshooting during abnormal operating conditions — including pump, filtration, viscosity, pressure, flow, and injection issues — by forming hypotheses, designing tests, analyzing results, and documenting root‑cause findings.
• Make real‑time operational decisions regarding filtration strategy, viscosity/heating management, recirculation vs. injection, escalation pathways, and stop‑work authority, while balancing risk, cost, and value.
• Own the on‑site interface for PLC, HMI, automation, and downhole‑sensor modifications; receive, validate, execute, and troubleshoot changes from the controls and automation engineering teams.
• Drive operational reliability and process optimization through disciplined…